Michael Scott would likely be no laughing matter in today’s social climate, Steve Carell says.

Carell believes his longtime character on “The Office” — who displayed wildly unprofessional behavior in the workplace — wouldn’t play as well now as it did during the show’s original run, which is part of the reason the actor doesn’t think rebooting the series would be the best move.

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“But apart from the fact that I just don’t think that’s a good idea, it might be impossible to do that show today and have people accept it the way it was accepted ten years ago. The climate’s different. I mean, the whole idea of that character, Michael Scott, so much of it was predicated on inappropriate behavior,” Carell told Esquire in a new cover story.

“I mean, he’s certainly not a model boss. A lot of what is depicted on that show is completely wrong-minded. That’s the point, you know? But I just don’t know how that would fly now,” he continued. “There’s a very high awareness of offensive things today — which is good, for sure. But at the same time, when you take a character like that too literally, it doesn’t really work.”

Carell’s character, who was a regional manager at the fictional paper company Dunder-Mifflin, committed numerous workplace offenses during his seven seasons on the show, including often making sexually charged “That’s what she said” jokes and once hosting a “diversity day” seminar that relied heavily on stereotypes.

The actor, 56, starred on the show from 2005 to 2011, and the series lasted two more seasons following his departure.

Many fans have clamored for the NBC series to be revived during an era where many popular shows have been brought back, and several of his former co-stars — including John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer — have expressed interest in returning.

Carell told the Daily News last year that he didn’t see a reboot as a good idea.

“Fans of any show think that they want to see more of that show but I don't really (believe) that's the case, because they want it to be exactly what it was, and there's no way it can be exactly what it was,” Carell said in June 2017.

“Even in the best possible scenario, it's always a slight disappointment. I don't see any reason to slightly disappoint people who might have loved your show to begin with.”